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Fred's First Date
Fred has invited you out for a day on the town. You wonder what the curious Mind Flayer has in store.
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Fred's First Date | |
Heroic level: | 18 |
Epic level: | 34 (considered Legendary) |
Duration: | Medium |
Heroic XP: | ♣2,587Solo/Casual ♦4,474Normal ♥4,636Hard ♠4,798Elite |
Epic XP: | ♣11,805Solo/Casual ♦20,138Normal ♥20,599Hard ♠21,061Elite |
Takes place in: | Fred's First Date |
Bestowed by: | Fred |
NPC contact: | Fred |
Quest acquired in: | Morgrave University - Upper Commons |
Patron: | Morgrave University |
Base favor: | 6 |
Purchase: | Slice of Life or VIP |
Extreme Challenge: | No |
Overview
To your surprise, you've run into your old friend Fred playing tourist in Sharn. To your even greater surprise, the Mind Flayer asked you out on a date. Fred wants to learn more about Humanoid customs, so join him on Fred's First Date.
Spoiler Warning: Spoiler material below this point!
Objectives
- Talk to Fred
- Go to Sharn Forest Park
- Talk to Fred
- Follow Fred
- Have a conversation with your Fred
- Craft a snack for Fred and bring it to him
- Find Fred Flowers (2)
- Craft a bouquet for Fred
- Give the bouquet to Fred
- Go to the Upper City Faire
- Talk to Fred at the carnival entrance
- Talk to the ticket vendor
- Complete the Carnival Challenge (3)
- Play carnival games with Fred (3)
- Pet all the petting zoo animals (9)
- Talk to Fred at the carnival exit
- Go to Middle City
- Meet up with Fred in the Middle City
- Enter the Restaurant
- Have dinner with your Fred
- Leave the Restaurant
- Defeat the adventurers (4)
- Talk to Jaime
- Talk to Fred
- (Optional) Win the Strength Crystal Game — Bonus (10%): Heroic( ♣259 ♦447 ♥464 ♠480 ) Legendary( ♣1,181 ♦2,014 ♥2,060 ♠2,106 )
- (Optional) Have a bad date with Fred — Bonus (10%): Heroic( ♣259 ♦447 ♥464 ♠480 ) Legendary( ♣1,181 ♦2,014 ♥2,060 ♠2,106 )
- (Optional) Have a nice date with Fred — Bonus (20%): Heroic( ♣517 ♦895 ♥927 ♠960 ) Legendary( ♣2,361 ♦4,028 ♥4,120 ♠4,212 )
Tips and Misc
- Your old acquaintance/partner in (metaphorical) crime/partner in (actual) crime/tentative friend Fred has invited you out on a date, apparently for research purposes. He's planned a visit to three landmarks across the city of Sharn.
- First on the itinerary: a picnic in a Sharn park. After a couple of altercations where Fred alternates between speaking like a Regency romance novel and an obnoxiously lovey-dovey teenager, you are asked to craft first a brain-and-cheese sandwich, then a bouquet.
- It's not indicated anywhere yet, but your choices here will determine whether Fred considers this a "bad" or "nice" date later, so make sure to play along with Fred's acting if you're after maximum XP here.
- If there are multiple non-hireling members in the party, multiple Freds will spawn here and in the restaurant. Somebody needs to talk to each of them, although there's no requirement for this to be a different person each time. To get the optional, the majority of people need to use the "nice" date options.
- The flowers for Fred's bouquet are being guarded by some Blights, Water Elementals, a Shambling Mound and a Kelpie. These are actually the only monsters in the quest you're allowed to outright kill, so if you're after XP bonuses for kills, make sure to stay here and farm some respawning Blights.
- Fred's next destination is a carnival in Upper Sharn, featuring such entertaining diversions as a game of Whack-a-Kobold, a test-your-strength game with a Cannith Crystal, a petting zoo and three obligatory fights with a bunch of carnival staff and a Fire Giant strongman. Make sure Fred is following you around for all of this – don't worry, he's a non-combat NPC, so he won't get in the way.
- You're required to pet every animal in the zoo before moving on. Handily, each animal stops being selectable after being petted once.
- You're allowed as many tries at Whack-a-Kobold as you like, and you have to succeed in order to progress. You don't have to use melee attacks on the kobold, you can use AOE's or ranged attacks. Success rewards XP and a chest.
- You must attempt the Test-Your-Strength game in order to progress, but you don't have to succeed. Success rewards XP and a chest. (Legendary DC ~80 (76:Fail; 84:Success))
- It appears that a critical hit on the strength crystal counts as a success. A character with 29 Strength succeeded on Legendary difficulty by rolling a 19 on the attack, which the in-game dice showed as a critical hit.
- You're allowed as many tries at the Test-Your-Strength and Whack-a-Kobold games as you like. You have to pass the latter at least once to progress, but the Test-Your-Strength game is optional, although it will award XP and a chest if you succeed.
- Middle City entrance is after the Fire Giant and near a chest.
- Finally, Fred invites you to a restaurant in the middle city. After a discussion on how your date went, you emerge into an alleyway, only to be jumped by a group of adventurers!
- After a bit of a scuffle, Jaime, the leader of the adventurers agrees to speak with you, at which point both you and Fred learn that they are under the mistaken impression that Fred is dating them. Fred, in his usual oblivious way, hadn't actually informed Jaime that his apparent romantic overtures were for research purposes, and eventually agrees to try putting his research into practice. Your own Baldur's Gate-style romance arc will apparently have to wait, but at least you get a chest for your trouble.
Bonus XP
- Aggression bonus: 17 or more monsters killed +10% Bonus.( ♣259 ♦447 ♥464 ♠480 )
- Onslaught bonus: 34 or more monsters killed +15% Bonus.( ♣388 ♦671 ♥695 ♠720 )
- Mischief bonus: 39 or more breakables smashed +8% Bonus.( ♣207 ♦358 ♥371 ♠384 )
- Vandal bonus: 51 or more breakables smashed +10% Bonus.( ♣259 ♦447 ♥464 ♠480 )
- Ransack bonus: 62 or more breakables smashed +15% Bonus.( ♣388 ♦671 ♥695 ♠720 )
- Notes: Note that many of the monsters in this quest do not count for the kill bonus, as they can only be pacified.
Loot
- Chests: 5
- at the Kobold Carnival game
- at the Cannith Crystal Strength game
- locked between the shrines at the Upper City Faire
- behind the City Faire Strongman
- end chest
- Collectables: 5
- Fungus — next to shrines in Sharn Forest Park
- Adventurer's Pack — in moat around kelpie's mound of grass
- Adventurer's Pack — behind the petting zoo
- Cabinet — in the left corridor in the Middle City
- Mold — in the Restaurant's middle toilet
- Fungus — next to shrines in Sharn Forest Park
NPC end rewards
Randomly generated loot, ML correlates with effective quest level.
Named Chest Drop
Based on [[Category:Fred's First Date loot]] ( t • e • h )
Monsters
Name ( picture ) | CR | Type | Race |
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Carnival Challenger ( view • edit ) | ♦20Normal ♥22Hard ♠25Elite ●♦36Epic Normal ●♥40Epic Hard ●♠45Epic Elite | Humanoid | Human |
Casting Carnie ( view • edit ) | ♦18Normal ♥20Hard ♠23Elite ●♦34Epic Normal ●♥38Epic Hard ●♠43Epic Elite | Humanoid | Human |
City Faire Strongman ( view • edit ) | ♦21Normal ♥23Hard ♠25Elite ●♦37Epic Normal ●♥41Epic Hard ●♠46Epic Elite | Giant | Giant |
Combat Carnie ( view • edit ) | ♦18Normal ♥20Hard ♠23Elite ●♦34Epic Normal ●♥38Epic Hard ●♠43Epic Elite | Humanoid | Human |
Dancing Kobold ( view • edit ) | ♦18Normal ♥22Hard ♠28Elite ●♦34Epic Normal ●♥38Epic Hard ●♠43Epic Elite | Reptilian | Kobold |
Forest Kelpie ( view • edit ) | ♦23Normal ♥25Hard ♠27Elite ●♦37Epic Normal ●♥41Epic Hard ●♠46Epic Elite | Plant | Kelpie |
Forest Needle Blight ( view • edit ) | ♦18Normal ♥20Hard ♠23Elite ●♦34Epic Normal ●♥38Epic Hard ●♠43Epic Elite | Plant | Needle Blight |
Forest Shambling Mound ( view • edit ) | ♦23Normal ♥25Hard ♠27Elite ●♦37Epic Normal ●♥41Epic Hard ●♠46Epic Elite | Plant | Shambling Mound |
Forest Twig Blight ( view • edit ) | ♦18Normal ♥20Hard ♠23Elite ●♦34Epic Normal ●♥38Epic Hard ●♠43Epic Elite | Plant | Twig Blight |
Forest Water Elemental ( view • edit ) | ♦6Normal ♥8Hard ♠11Elite ●♦34Epic Normal ●♥38Epic Hard ●♠43Epic Elite | Elemental | Water Elemental |
Hammerbane ( view • edit ) | ♦20Normal ♥22Hard ♠25Elite ●♦36Epic Normal ●♥40Epic Hard ●♠45Epic Elite | Dwarf | Dwarf |
Jaime ( view • edit ) | ♦21Normal ♥24Hard ♠27Elite ●♦37Epic Normal ●♥41Epic Hard ●♠46Epic Elite | Living Construct | Warforged |
Shadow-blade ( view • edit ) | ♦20Normal ♥24Hard ♠30Elite ●♦36Epic Normal ●♥40Epic Hard ●♠45Epic Elite | Halfling | Halfling |
Strength Crystal ( view • edit ) | ♦21Normal ♥25Hard ♠31Elite ●♦37Epic Normal ●♥41Epic Hard ●♠46Epic Elite | Construct | Inanimate Object |
Tuddle ( view • edit ) | ♦20Normal ♥24Hard ♠30Elite ●♦36Epic Normal ●♥40Epic Hard ●♠45Epic Elite | Gnome | Gnome |
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